The Kyiv Post has a hilarious, lively, and insightful editorial about the political games going on in Ukraine. But here’s the best part, which seriously takes Yushchenko and Tymoshenko to task for their latest jockeying.

And one more word for Tymoshenko, and indeed for Yushchenko: talk of rigging the political reform process one way or the other should not be heard again. On Sept. 19 it emerged that the Tymoshenko Bloc might try to move up constitutional reforms from their scheduled date on Jan. 1. The move would give Tymoshenko a shot at becoming a vastly more powerful prime minister immediately, and not (as might happen) next spring. For his part, Yushchenko flirted last week with the idea of trying to delay reform, and thus keep more power in his own hands.

They both need to shut up. The rules as drafted say that reform goes into effect on Jan. 1. Period. In a democratic system, you follow the rules. You don????????t get to change them when they no longer work for you. As the cliche goes, a democracy is a system of rules, not of men (or women).

Exactly.